Canberra Fires

Below are the photos we took of the fire that threatened our homes . At 1:30 we sent the girls to a safer place. Image 36 shows how dark it was at 3:30pm. At this point we had to drop everything - including the camera - and fight the fire. There was only 10 - 15 minutes between image 36 and image 37, and you can't see the wall of flames we were up against. There were big burning embers landing all over our garden, and the fire was about 30ft high, on Jim Pike Avenue, just at the end of our street - only 20m from our house. At two points the fire jumped the road and burnt against the neighbours fences. The noise was unbelievable, and the heat was unbearable and you just couldn't keep your eyes open. Just in time the fire brigade arrived and helped put the worst of the fire out, but some continued down Jim Pike Avenue towards Point Hut and the Murrimbidgee River. Not something I would like to see again, that is for sure.

Pictures of the Georgia Peach Air Crane can be viewed here.
A huge collection of photo's of the fire and the damage can be found on Darryl's Website and also at ABC Canberra.

Click the picture to view the full size image.

01.In the distance.jpg	05.Back to that front.jpg	07.Thats looking a bit close.jpg
11.That hill looks unsafe.jpg	15.Yep Bit closer .jpg	20.That almost looks like fire.jpg
22.There could be something to think about here.jpg	23.Whats that glow.jpg	24.Here it comes.jpg
25.Hang on we are in the line.jpg	30.Hard to see the flames for the smoke.jpg	31.Its getting dark.jpg
33.Time to get home again.jpg	35.Its dark and its coming.jpg	36.three thirty pm.jpg
37.Just after the front went through.jpg	38.The aftermath.jpg	41. Our sweet little hill.jpg
44.It jumped the road.jpg	45.It jumped again.jpg	48.Still burning.jpg
49.Still burning.jpg	51.Fires behind me.jpg	53.Just past our house.jpg
57.Too close.jpg	58.Too close..jpg	59.Danger has passed.jpg
63.On the murrimbidgee.jpg	64.Looking over Gordon.jpg